How common is the surname Timko?

2,537 people in the United States had the surname Timko in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,697 Americans. It ranked 12,261st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Timko?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Timko identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Timko getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,649 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,537 in 2010, down 4.2%.

The surname Timko

A Slovak surname, carried by 2,537 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Timko is more common than 92.4% of them.

Origin

Slovak origin

Borrowed from Slovak Timko.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,537 people named Timko in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,697 Americans. That is down 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,649.

#12,261

rank among US surnames

2,537

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

-4.2%

change since 2000 (was #11,012)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,255	Cabe	2,538	121,649
#12,261	Starner	2,537	121,697
#12,264	Lounsbury	2,536	121,745
#12,269	Berggren	2,535	121,793

Who is named Timko

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Timko identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Timko

Timko has the Soundex code T520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T520.

Questions

Where does the surname Timko come from?: Borrowed from Slovak Timko.
How common is the surname Timko?: 2,537 people in the United States had the surname Timko in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,697 Americans. It ranked 12,261st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Timko?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Timko identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Timko getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,649 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,537 in 2010, down 4.2%.